HOBOKEN, NJ (WCBS 880) – Ferry service at the Hoboken terminal has been running out of a temporary slip for more than 20 years after the terminal grew old and rusty. But on Wednesday, service returned there for the first time since 1967.

It’s all part of a renovation of the Erie Lackawanna Ferry Terminal. It operated for 60 years until ridership between New Jersey and New York City dwindled.

Ferry service resumed in 1989 and since then, passengers have been using a barge covered by a tent — but no more.

“Today we’re opening a new terminal in the historic Erie Lakawanna ferry terminal, a terminal that was built in 1907,” said Billybey Ferry CEO Paul Goodman on Wednesday.

“Cornelius Vanderbilt had the first scheduled ferry service in New York harbor before he created the New York Central Railroad. So, it’s almost like ‘Back to the Future,'” said New Jersey transportation commissioner Jim Simpson.